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Headword:
*do/lwnes
Adler number: delta,1346
Translated headword: jibs
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] small sails.[1]
"[He ordered them], after stowing the large fitted [sc. sails], to set the small ones, which they call jibs."[2]
And elsewhere [sc. also] "jibs" [sc. are mentioned].
"Having arraying a few warships out in front of the whole fleet, he set the jibs on these and sailed."[3]
"But when the Romans came near they took down the jibs."[4]
Greek Original:*do/lwnes: ta\ mikra\ i(sti/a. xala/santas ta\ mega/la a)/rmena, toi=s mikroi=s, a(\ dh\ do/lwnas kalou=sin, e(/pesqai. kai\ au)=qis *do/lwnes. probalo/menos tou= panto\s sto/lou nau=s o)li/gas, tau/tais tou\s do/lwnas e)para/menos e)/plei. oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi plhsi/on geno/menoi kaqei=lon tou\s do/lwnas.
Notes:
Besides the passages quoted here see e.g.
Polybius 16.15.2,
Diodorus Siculus 20.61; and generally Lionel Casson,
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 237-238.
[1] Similarly in
Hesychius (delta2174).
[2] An approximation of
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 3.17.5 (web address 1). Marching from Byzacena (cf.
beta 456 note) north toward Carthage along the coast in 533 CE, the Roman general Belisarius (cf.
beta 233) instructs his fleet to maintain a slow pace offshore, keeping adjacent to the main army; cf. Kaldellis (180).
[3] Quotation unidentifiable. (This and the following one also are transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti.)
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 9 February 2004@07:39:55.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 9 February 2004@09:18:24.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 10 March 2011@06:41:11.
David Whitehead on 16 July 2012@05:38:31.
David Whitehead (another note) on 13 November 2015@03:14:17.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references, added link) on 20 January 2024@11:20:06.
Ronald Allen (my typo n.2, spotted by Catharine Roth) on 22 January 2024@10:19:56.
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